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When Fred Van Domelen and Dirk Looijenga founded Van Domelen/Looijenga in 1971, the firm shared a two-room office with an interior designer and its primary emphasis was providing quality consulting structural engineering services.
Among its earlier work were manufacturing and distribution buildings for clients such as Columbia Sportswear and Nike. “Those were interesting and the people we worked with were just fantastic. Our challenge was to understand the manufacturing process and then wrap a building around it,” Van Domelen said.
Consulting services were expanded in the early 1980s to include civil engineering and a broader range of planning and design services for industrial site and building projects. President Greg Blefgen, PE, SE, said a recent project for Columbia Distributing that opened last summer in Canby is reflective of the teamwork, relationships and collaboration that are essential to VLMK’s culture and th